Ladies of Charity 2016 National Assembly
Schedule of Tours
In 2015, NYC attracted 60 million visitors.Ladies of Charity National Assembly attendees areinvited to experience the BIG APPLE with a selection of specially created tours and an evening event designed exclusively for them.
Tours are offered on Thursday, Friday and Sunday of the conference in the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens. Cititrek, Inc., is booking all tours.
For information about the tours, contact Cititrek at 855-TOUR-NYC (868-7692) #1
or email
All tours leave from the Marriott Courtyard LaGuardia
Thursday September 29, 2016
Manhattan Tours:
TM-1 The 9/11 Memorial Parkand Museum…the Financial District…Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
10:00am - 4:00pm
Tour Highlights: Walk through the park and museum that memorializes the three thousand people who were victims of a terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. Visit Brookfield Place for lunch on your own. Walk through the new Transportation Hub to Wall Street in the Financial District,and Trinity Church, to the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton.
Minimum: 20 people $130/person
(Price includes transportation, tour guide and admission fee. Lunch cost is not included)
TM-2 Radio City Music Hall Backstage Tour…Art and Architecture of Rockefeller Center…St Patrick’s Cathedral and Fifth Avenue Stroll
10:00am-4:00pm
Tour Highlights: Rockefeller Center is a city within a city, with 19 buildings located on 24 acres in midtown Manhattan. Visit the world famous Radio City Music Hall with a backstage tour; enjoythe art that adorns the interiors and exteriors of the buildings. Lunch on your own in the Rockefeller Center Promenade or Concourse. Cross Fifth Avenue to view the beautiful St. Patrick’s Cathedral followed by a stroll along Fifth Avenue towards the Plaza Hotel at Central Park South.
Minimum: 20 people $130/person
(Price includes transportation, tour guide and admission fee. Lunch cost is not included)
Queens Tours:
TQ -1 Long Island City and Astoria
10:00am - 4:00pm
Tour Highlights: Take a tour of the borough’smost excitingneighborhoods, Long Island Cityand Astoria, with their incredible views of Manhattan’sEast Side and more. Long Island City is noted for its rapid and ongoing industrial growth and gentrification, its waterfront parks, and has one of the highest concentrations of art galleries, art institutions, and studio space of any neighborhood in New York City. Astoria is named after fur magnate John Jacob Astor, who acted as front-man investor for the development of a village here in the early nineteenth century. In 1910’s Astoria became home to the first American silent film studios—a heritage celebrated at the Museum of the Moving Image—but today
the neighborhood is more locally famous for the large Greek community that began its migration here in the 1960s.
Included in the tour is a stop at Socrates Sculpture Garden, a visit to the Noguchi Museum and lunch at the Astor Room, the former commissary in the Kaufman Studios. Walk across the street to the Museum of the Moving Image where a museum educator will help rekindle memories of great achievements in the film industry.
Minimum: 20 people $130/person
(Price includes transportation, tour guide and admission fees. Lunch cost is not included)
TQ-2 Queens- The Ultimate Melting Pot
10:00am - 4:00pm
Tour Highlights: More than 150 languages are spoken in Queens. One community that boasts of its international essence is Jackson Heights, which was originallyplanned as a suburban community withlow-rise apartments and interior gardens. Stroll along the busy streets and taste some international favorites or visit shops that feature their fashions or delicacies Next, ride to Flushing, aka Little Asia, and seeFlushing Town Hall, Quaker Meeting House, Temple Ganesh, (a Hindu temple) and more. Rounding out the tour is a stop at Flushing Meadows, the site of two former World’s Fairs, and a visit to the Queens Museum.
Minimum: 20 people $125/person
(Price includes transportation, tour guide, admission fee and five international foodtastings in Jackson Heights.)
Friday, September 30, 2016 [A free evening for dinner on your own. Local dining options will be included in your welcome materials]
FM-3 A Night on Broadway
4:30pm-?
Tour highlights: Enjoy a night in Manhattan with a buffet dinner on the 48th Floor of the Marriott Marquis Lounge with incredible views of Times Square and beyond. Take a short stroll to the Sondheim Theater for an evening of nostalgia with songs made famous by Carole King in the hit musical,BEAUTIFUL.BEAUTIFUL tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit songwriting team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history. Along the way, she made more than BEAUTIFUL music, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation.This will be an evening to remember!
Minimum: 20 people $220/person
(Transportation, tour guide,buffet dinnerand theater ticket in mid-mezzanineare included)
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Manhattan Tour:
SM-4 Historic Chelsea… Meat Packing District..Walk alongthe High Line
11:00 am - 3:00pm
Tour Highlights: Before Times Square, Chelsea was the center of New York’s theater district. Now it is a vibrant midtown neighborhood. Walk on the elevated railroad that was transformed into a beautiful park, to the site of the Gansevoort Markets. Don’t forget to ask your tour guide about NABISCO, now Chelsea Markets for lunch and more.
Minimum: 10 people $90/person
(Price includes transportation and tour guide. Lunch cost is not included)
LCUSA 2016 Assembly Tour Registration
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Payment for tours: Cititrek accepts check or money order payable to Cititrek, Inc.
Mail completed form with payment to:
Cititrek , Inc.
350 Richmond Terrace #7C
Staten Island, NY 10301
or book online with Eventbrite, (Additional service fees apply.)
For information about the tours, contact Cititrek at 855-TOUR-NYC (868-7692) #1
or email
Registration ends August 1, 2016
Full refunds for tour cancellation with two weeks’ notice.